October 5, 2012

Me, I was working yesterday, even locked out of the law school, so I didn't make it to the big political rally in the center of campus — Bascom Mall. But Meade was there, and he was really inspired. He wrote a song about his nearly ecstatic experience, and he won't stop singing. It goes like this:

I came upon a child of Obam-a
She was walking by Sterling Hall
So I asked her, "Where are you going?"
And this she told me...

"I'm going up to Bascom Mall,
I'm gonna join in a political rally
Gonna put out my two hands
Try and keep my birth control free.

We are starstruck
We're beholden
And we've got to keep ourselves in government lardon."

Then can I walk beside you?
I have come here to dialogue
And with a Flip cam, I feel like Herzog,
Artistically burning.

Well maybe it's just not our year,
And maybe, well, Yes We Can
But Tammy B and Mark Pocan
Have my stomach churning.

We are starstruck
We're beholden
And we've got to keep ourselves in government lardon.

By the time we got to Bascom,
We were thirty thousand strong
Everywhere you looked - career politicians.

And I dreamed I saw drone bombers
Chooming roof hits in the sky,
Turning into Obama Pies
O'er Bascom Nation

We are starstruck
We're beholden
And we've got to keep ourselves in government lardon.

At the moment I'm listening to Joni's Both Sides Now album, which is not so good -- she doesn't work as a torch singer doing covers in front of a big string orchestra. I bought it years ago and never managed to finish it.

madAsHell said... Just watched a clip of John Sununu. He was asked if he thought the President would be better prepared for the next debate. His response was...

"When you're not that bright, you can't be better prepared!!"

Sununu just let Obama turn the subject back to race by calling Obama lazy. In the run up to the debate Obama surrogates were dropping that they couldn't get Obama to focus on debate prep. Am I being conspiratorial to wonder if they were baiting the lazy accusation?

She does something with her voice there that I would stress in ASL. She raises it and flicks it around for the first part and brings it down and fortifies it in the second and spreads it out to conclude. Those inflections can be shown by changes to the regular textbook word, but you rarely see that done well to match what the singer has done. And I wish people would take my advise and allow me to change the world on this matter, but they do not. But in this case, I only imagined someone interpreting her poorly because I see so much of it.

That was so easy I couldn't believe it myself. And that video is so bad I can't believe that either. You must know, this is the worst goddamn interpretation of that song that is possible, I honestly don't know what that woman is trying to do. It absolutely does not convey the song. Now I'm angry.

Star is like your hands as two guns the index finger barrels fire off little stars toward the ceiling. The two guns smack each other, the two index fingers like miniature pistons shooting off stars. dinkdinkdinkdinkdink in front of the body.

But. Stars are above. So I raise that for stars. Lift both arms to above face level and shoot off stars from there. My stars stick to the ceiling, and are clearly stars. You see stars, with my stars.

Hers are like chopping wood. Her stars are hatchet arms flailing stars. There's nothing tiny white dots about her stars. Her sign for stars is like taking black spray paint and spraying S T A R in giant letters by a kindergardener who sprays like a spaz. It's everything that's wrong.

And so is her "dust" which is supposed to be like showing feeling particles in your fingertips.